Thursday, January 26, 2006

Iguazu / Iguaçu falls


Over two days I visited both sides (Argentinian and Brasilian) of the Iguazu falls - really amazing sight. The first day on the Argie side, was a lot longer as you get to see lots of individual falls (there are 275 altogether!), and do a lot more walking around. We saw el gargantua diablo last, which is a huge huge HUWGE expanse of waterfall, with loads of mist and rainbows in the mist. Pretty amazing. Also saw lots of wildlife, which was quite tame '- big lizards - although they didn´t stop long enough for photos typically! We also saw a whole family of "coatimundi" too which are small rodent/pig-type creatures with longish noses. On the Brasilian side, the tour of the falls is a lot shorter, because you get more of a panoramic view, but its definitely worth seeing both sides, as here you can get right up close to one of the falls, and get soaked by all the mist coming off, its really spectacular.

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